A Quote by Margaret Trudeau

I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.

Margaret Trudeau

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Margaret Trudeau
Canadian - Author
Born: September 10, 1948

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

Jaggi Vasudev

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Leo Durocher

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Lisa Lopes

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

Christopher Paul Curtis

There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

Sidney Cohen

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Carl Hiaasen

I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.

Bryan Davis

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Megan Gallagher

Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

Harold Ramis

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Philip K. Dick

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

Jill McCorkle

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

William Friedkin

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

As players, it's a thin line. You want to recover, but you also gotta get some practice time in.

Paul Millsap

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

Rosa Parks

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